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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4695 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 393 of 713 01 May 2012 at 9:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'm still working out how to count things for myself as well. Any suggestions how many episodes of a 1/2 hour show to count as a film? Two would be more than 45 minutes, but probably less than an hour. So I'm thinking 3 episodes make a film? What's the general opinion? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5120 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 394 of 713 01 May 2012 at 9:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
I would say that if it lasts 30 minutes, count three for a film, If it is 40 minutes, count two. I AM GOING TO FRANCE TOMORROW AND AM BACK ON SATURDAY - I DO NOT KNOW HOW MUCH I WILL BE ABLE TO ANSWER WHILE I AM THERE. Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 01 May 2012 at 10:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4695 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 395 of 713 01 May 2012 at 9:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
There is nothing to say you can't read Les Misérables now, and then read it again later in the challenge. You might make an annual habit of reading it! As for me, I'm looking forward to reading a few books I have in Hindi, which are history for adolescents: a biography of Mahatma Gandhi, one of Indira Gandhi, and a few others. I also have a novella by Ruskin Bond called नीला छतरी (Blue Umbrella). After I read it, I might try to get the Hindi film made from it. For French, I'm looking forward to finally reading my 3 Tintins in French, and some other short books for adolescents, e.g. Maigret et la jeune morte (in a simplified edition). I'm a little less ambitious than you, Moniker, but I'm really looking forward to finally using what I've been stacking for so long on my shelves! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fiziwig Senior Member United States Joined 4651 days ago 297 posts - 618 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 396 of 713 02 May 2012 at 6:54am | IP Logged | |||||
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Twitter Bot question:
I tweeted the first four Harry Potter movies in Spanish (along with their running times) as I watched each one through the course of the day, but the Twitter Bot page has me credited with 6 movies, not 4. I really don't want to be credited with 6 movies when I've actually only watched 4. Is there a way I can get an honest count of movies watched? Should I leave off the running time of the movies when I tweet? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4695 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 397 of 713 02 May 2012 at 8:02am | IP Logged | |||||
How much time were the films? A three hour film should count as two films, otherwise they should be one film each. I didn't think the HP films were that long. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6695 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 398 of 713 02 May 2012 at 9:57am | IP Logged | |||||
That's another option. You could just ignore movie length and number of pages and maybe things will even out in the end. Some movies/books are longer than the suggested average, some are shorter. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| surrealix Diglot Groupie New Zealand languagechallenge.su Joined 4390 days ago 66 posts - 152 votes Speaks: English*, Swedish Studies: French | Message 399 of 713 02 May 2012 at 11:05am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes - if you leave off the running time, it'll just count the number of times you've tweeted "#film". The same applies for books/writing/etc. Edited by surrealix on 02 May 2012 at 11:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Einarr Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom einarrslanguagelog.w Joined 4399 days ago 118 posts - 269 votes Speaks: English, Bulgarian*, French, Russian Studies: Swedish | Message 400 of 713 02 May 2012 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've got a similar problem with my last tweet. I tweeted that I've red 5 articles and later on I got a message saying that I've read a book. Obviously these 5 pages can only count as something like a chapter from a book.
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